Friday, June 20, 2003

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Is it Friday already? That means it's time for the weekly list of the movers and shakers in Indian Country and beyond....

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A House panel this week approved legislation that would allow the Bush administration to settle certain trust fund accounts without going through the federal judge overseeing the Cobell case and subject the rest to a statistical sampling, a method overwhelmingly rejected by Indian beneficiaries....

Desson Howe: "Watching this delightful film, one can see why it has been winning audience favorite awards at film festivals....

The Seneca Nation of New York is interested in a casino in the Catskills, The Albany Times Union reports....

An appeals committee of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin will hold a hearing to discuss the dismissal of two tribal gaming commissioners....

The Hopi Tribe of Arizona is holding a special election next week for the vice chairman post....

The four tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy met in Alberta, Canada, on Thursday to discuss treaty, legal, border and other issues....

A judge in British Columbia, Canada, has thrown out charges against non-Native fishermen who took part in an illegal fishery, saying that the federal government has fallen to "political correctness" by promoting Aboriginal rights....

Every year, the Canadian government doles out $5 to every Native man, woman and child, honoring a treaty promise made more than a century ago....

The British Columbia government is launching a web site to keep Native languages alive....

After reading a Wall Street Journal article about the Southern Ute Tribe of Colorado, a Houston businessman thought he may have found the expensive diamond bracelet his wife lost in the area....

President Bush this week rejected an offer to work with Democrats and Republicans on a potential Supreme Court nomination....

The Native American Journalists Association released its annual Reading Red Report, calling on the news media to stop using Indian mascot names in their coverage of sports....

California Senator Jim Battin (R) said he won't accept business from tribes after receiving criticism for soliciting tribal clients....

Tim Smiley, a man from the Flathead Reservation in Montana, is seeking federal recognition for all the "lost" Salish, Kootenai and Pend Oreille descendants....

The Osage Nation of Oklahoma plans to ask Congress to pass legislation that would reaffirm the tribe's powers of self-government, chief Jim Gray says....

Department of Interior officials won't meet with the Meskwaki Tribe of Iowa to discuss the tribe's ongoing leadership dispute because one faction has decided not to attend....

A Navajo man who was killed in an hit and run accident in Phoenix, Arizona, may have been intoxicated, The Arizona Republic reports....

The family of Lori Piestewa, the Hopi woman killed in action in Iraq, will be honored guests at next week's dedication of the Indian memorial at the Little Bighorn National Monument....

Rick Lupe, a firefighter for the White Mountain Apache Tribe of Arizona, died on Thursday, five weeks after suffering third-degree burns over 40 percent of his body....

A herd of bison recently set loose by its own continues to evade roundup on the Umatilla Reservation in Oregon....
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